Podcasts, videos, books and articles of the week 93
My hog needs to breathe
Removed the tweet from the subject line since we don’t put up tweets much any more.
Eat like a prisoner!
Somehow I doubt prisoners actually get this.
The photographs of returned Ukrainian POWs are usually horrific, something out of Andersonville.
Eat like an Ukrainian soldier
Join Wagner, die at Bakhmut
“In total, one in three of the prisoners who enlisted with Wagner Group (35.5 percent, according to internal reporting) never returned from the “Bakhmut meatgrinder.”
Always bet on Netanyahu is my pessimistic view
Militant Ben Gvir followers attacked Palestinian residents and journalists, chanting “Death to the Arabs,” “May your village burn,” and “Shuafat is up in flames,” a reference to an East Jerusalem Palestinian neighborhood.
Next week could be make or break for Binyamin Netanyahu
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Watch tv like a Soviet
Fallout’s official music theme
Send some of these to Ukraine to cross the rivers
Reading
Normal Accidents analyzes the social side of technological risk. Charles Perrow argues that the conventional engineering approach to ensuring safety—building in more warnings and safeguards—fails because systems complexity makes failures inevitable.
Israel’s war against the ICC
On this edition of Parallax Views, Israeli investigative reporter Meron Rappaport joins the show to discuss a MAJOR story he helped break last week with 972 Magazine, Local Call, and The Guardian: Israel's Covert War Against the ICC. According to the bombshell reporting Meron and others have done, Israel has engaged in a nearly long surveillance program against the International Criminal Court. Surveillance was aimed at both current chief prosecutor and his predecessor Fatou Bensouda. Additionally, Palestinian human rights groups like Al-Haq, Addameer, Al Mezan, and the Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR) were targets of surveillance and there are connections to the controversial and scandal-besieged Israeli private cyber-intelligence firm NSO Group's Pegasus spyware to this story. This story includes allegations of illegal activity, intimidation, and blackmail.
Our book is still out
Phil has a new book coming out soon
